A closed Catholic church has been purchased by a Muslim cultural group.

The Immaculate Conception B.V.M. Catholic Church property on Emilie Road in Bristol Township was sold last Friday to the United American Muslim Society of Brooklyn, New York for $1,775,000. The United American Muslim Society is the parent corporation for the Turkish American Muslim Cultural Association on Levittown Parkway in Bristol Township.

Archdiocese of Philadelphia spokesman Ken Gavin told LevittownNow.com Queen of the Universe Father Mike Hennelly “worked with is parish and pastoral councils regarding the future disposition of the property.”

“The new owners of the former Immaculate Conception campus are community neighbors that have been present on the Levittown Parkway since 1991. They are widely known as people of faith, family, prayer and education in the moral life for their children and the families of Bristol Township,” Gavin said.

The money from the sale of the property will go to pay down a debt total of $963,041.03. Gavin said $704, 997 of the debt belonged to Immaculate Conception and $258,042 belonged to Queen of the Universe. Remaining money will go to parish savings.

The real estate transaction was announced during weekend masses at Queen of the Universe Parish. The announcement was “positively received by parishioners,” Gavin said.

A phone number attached to the new owners of the property was not answered Monday.

Expect the “cultural” desecration to begin soon as Muslims tear down all crosses, statues and images of Christianity – as they did in Syracuse and as ISIS does in the Middle East.

Also recall the ACLU and a Muslim supremacist filed a frivolous lawsuit on a New Jersey school a few years ago arguing the Muslim student could not participate in a high school graduation held at a rented space in a church. It’s quite clear Muslims have no problem entering or using churches when it suits them.

Philadelphia Police and Muslim American Society leaders feel like the breakfast is especially significant this year given recent events like police shootings and mass shootings. Both groups feel like they have a shared experience — they both know what it’s like when society makes negative assumptions about police officers or Muslims. Mosque leaders said they feel it’s important to continually reinforce to the broader community that they are good people doing good things in Philadelphia.

Are these police officers aware that MAS is a Muslim Brotherhood entity, listed as a terrorist group in the UAE, with leaders who espouse jihad?

“…we cannot accept incitement or funding when we look at some of these organizations…for many countries the definition of terror is that you have have to carry a weapon and terrorize people for us it’s far beyond that…we cannot tolerate even the smallest and tiniest amount of terrorism”

A North Philadelphia mother of two admitted Tuesday that she planned to abandon her children and travel to Syria to pursue “martyrdom operations” with an ISIS fighter she married over the internet.

Keonna Thomas, 32, pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization during a brief hearing in federal court. She acknowledged her plans were derailed last year only when federal agents raided her home the day she was scheduled to leave the country.

“I believe that I’m guilty of this charge,” said Thomas, dressed in a head scarf and green prison jumpsuit, when asked by U.S. District Judge Michael Baylson why she was changing her plea.

Federal authorities had couched the case as the latest in a string of prosecutions to combat what they describe as a “more decentralized, more diffuse, more complicated” homegrown terror threat from U.S. citizens radicalized over the internet.

Since the fall of last year, more than 250 Americans have either traveled to Syria and Iraq or tried to do so in an effort to join ISIS. Nearly 60 were arrested and charged in U.S. courts last year for ISIS-related activities.

But Thomas’ decision to admit her guilt just weeks before she was set to take her case to trial came as something of a surprise.

Up until earlier this month, her lawyers – Kathleen M. Gaughan, Elizabeth Toplin, and James J. McHugh of the Federal Defender’s Office – were aggressively challenging the government’s case in court filings that questioned the tactics used to surveil her and the very charge under which her case had been brought.

Earlier, they had maintained that Thomas was being prosecuted for statements she made on the internet that should be protected under her First Amendment rights.

Gaughan offered little explanation Tuesday for the about-face.

“It was Ms. Thomas’ decision after careful consideration of this case,” she said. “She’s accepted full responsibility for her behavior and conduct. She looks forward to putting this behind her and being a mother to her two young children.”

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer A. Williams declined to comment after the hearing.

When and how Thomas became radicalized remains unclear.

Through months of court proceedings, glimpses of her private life emerged, but there was little to explain why she would agree to leave behind 7- and 9-year-old daughters so she could die for ISIS.

As FBI agents arrived at her North Philadelphia house to arrest her in April 2015, they found her cooking breakfast for the children.

Thomas was born in Pittsburgh but came to Philadelphia as an infant. She was raised here, has local family ties, and has lived in the same house with her mother for a decade.

Before her arrest, she had been unemployed for a few years but previously worked as a home health-care aide, like her mother.

According to a plea memo filed Tuesday with the court, Thomas was circulating terrorist propaganda, under the online monikers Fatayat Al Khilafah and YoungLioness, as early as August 2013.

One of her early postings on Twitter pictured a young boy holding weapons. The caption read: “Ask yourselves, while this young man is holding magazines for the Islamic state, what are you doing for it? #ISIS.”

Another, posted in April 2014, contained images of a skull, flames, and a gun. Thomas purportedly wrote: “I need a permanent vacation that can only mean one thing.” Another Twitter user, court filings say, responded with a word that means “martyrdom.”

At some point, Thomas’ plans went beyond simply voicing support for terror groups online. She communicated directly with a radical Jamaican cleric, Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, and sought his assistance in finding a jihadist to marry.

She later struck up a relationship with Abu Khalid al-Amriki, an ISIS recruit newly arrived in the organization’s Syrian headquarters, and married the man in a ceremony conducted over Skype.

When Amriki contacted her in February 2015 to ask whether she was willing to take part in a suicide attack, Thomas responded: “That would be amazing. . . . A girl can only wish.”

Thomas has remained in custody since her arrest last year, five days after she missed a flight she had booked to Barcelona, Spain, with plans to travel from there to Syria. Amriki is believed to have been killed last year.

Thomas faces up to 15 years in prison at a sentencing hearing scheduled for Jan. 17.

KILLING ED is a new documentary feature film that exposes a shocking truth: that one of the largest networks of taxpayer-funded charter schools in the U.S. are a worst-case-scenario—operated with questionable academic, labor, and H1-B visa standards by members of the “Gülen Movement” – a rapidly expanding, global Islamic group whose leader, Fethullah Gülen, lives in seclusion in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.

KILLING ED enlightens its audiences everywhere with a shocking, first-hand look inside the schools while revealing the corruption of those attempting to privatize our public schools through education ‘reform’ in America.

A group of refugees is suing a Central Pennsylvania school district, saying the academy they were put in after their arduous journey to America is not up to snuff.

Represented by the Pennsylvania branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, the six refugees sued Lancaster schools in federal court, saying they were dumped in a disciplinary school and are being denied access to a quality education. The students range in age from 17 to 21, and hail from Somalia, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Burma.

“[The] Plaintiffs are refugees who have fled war, violence, and persecution from their native countries,” reads a statement from the lawsuit. “Having finally escaped their turbulent environment to resettle in America, these young immigrants yearn to learn English and get an education so they can make a life for themselves.”

The refugees hoped to enter McCaskey High School, known for its superior academic program, but instead were sent to Phoenix Academy, an alternative high school for “underachieving” students in the district. Phoenix students are subject to pat-downs, banned from bringing personal belongings like watches and jewelry and forced to wear colored shirts that “correspond with behavior.”

U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 rankings show Phoenix Academy has a graduation rate of 54 percent, and its 458 students perform substantially below the state average on standardized tests. More than 90 percent of the students come from poor families, and there are just 11 full-time teachers at the school, according to the magazine.

“Our clients have already experienced much trauma and loss before arriving in this country,” Reggie Shuford, executive director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania, said in a statement. “Rather than helping them make the difficult adjustment by providing educational resources required by law, the school district has denied them an education completely or forced them into an alternative school, where they are often bullied and don’t learn.”

Officials for the school district say the six students were sent to Phoenix for a special program geared towards their needs.

“[The District] believes the lawsuit is without merit,” Superintendent Damaris Rau said in a statement. “We are confident we are doing an excellent job supporting our refugee students who often come to school with little or no education.”

A special “acceleration program” at Phoenix was created for under-credited students, both refugee and non-refugee, which gives them the opportunity to earn credits toward a high school diploma by the age of 21, Rau said.

At Phoenix, the students receive various services including remedial services, English classes for Second Language Learners, after school programs, job and computer skills as well as mentoring services, Rau added.

Earlier this week, some of the students testified about their educational experience in an Eastern District of Pennsylvania courtroom.

Khadidja Issa, who arrived in America from Chad with her family by way of their home country Sudan, said on Tuesday school officials told her she “was too old for school” and should get a job instead.

“I responded that I didn’t want a job without an education,” she said.

Issa, who lived in a refugee camp from the age of 5 to 17, also said that she found the search procedure invasive while attending the school.

“I have been to school before and I’ve never seen a place where they pat you down in order to enter school, and they do it every day,” she said.

End refugee resettlement to the U.S. Halt all immigration until the borders are secure and illegals deported.

As for these ungrateful freeloaders, send them back where they came from.

The Justice Department is taking a Pennsylvania town to court over a municipal board’s denial of a zoning application for a mosque, accusing officials of discriminating against a local Muslim organization on the basis of religion.

The Bensalem Township violated the federal Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act when its zoning board in 2014 rejected a zoning request that would have allowed the Bensalem Masjid to build a mosque in the town, Justice Department attorneys wrote in a complaint filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

“Our Constitution protects the rights of religious communities to build places of worship free from unlawful interference and unnecessary barriers,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “The Department of Justice will continue to challenge unjustified local zoning actions around the country when they encroach upon this important civil right.”

Members of the local Muslim community sought to build a mosque after years of renting a local fire hall for worship services. In 2012, the Bensalem Masjid organization met with elected officials to discuss options for building a 17,000-square-foot mosque on land adjacent to the township.

But as plans moved forward and the group attended a series of meetings before the Bensalem Township Zoning Hearing Board, the complaint alleges that Bensalem Masjid was treated differently than other religious and non-religious groups that had sought similar zoning variances. The board, which ultimately rejected the application in a 4-0 vote, treated other groups “more favorably than it treated the Bensalem’s Masjid’s application throughout the variance process.”

Specifically the complaint alleges that in other instances the board required only one hearing to make a zoning variance application while there were six hearings conducted as part of the Bensalem Masjid’s application.

“As another example, the Board asked questions of the Bensalem Masjid that it did not ask of many of these other applicants, including whether its membership would increase and whether it would attract members from outside of Bensalem Township,” the complaint states.

Those are legitimate questions. What they should have been asking is: who is funding your mosque? Will you preach jihad? Will you preach sharia? Will you segregate women and force them to use a separate entrance and be treated as unequals? Do any of your executives or founders have links to terrorism or the Muslim Brotherhood? Among many other legitimate questions Bensalem residents ought to have answers too. The mosques present small proposals and then when the multitudes show up, they disrupt traffic flow, park on neighbors lawns, block streets and eventually force towns to permit mosque expansions.

Under Hillary Clinton mosques there will be thousands more mosques needed in towns all across America.

Meanwhile, the DOJ’s latest sharia enforcer Gupta, is not new to Creeping Sharia readers:

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MIM: The City Council of Philadelphia and the Council on American Islamic Relations are co sponsoring an Islamist event at City Hall entitled “Thomas Jefferson’s Quran-Islam And The Founders”. Muslim Councilman Curtis Jones is hosting the event and has exploited his position as City Councilman to further Islamist causes under the auspices of the CCP and on the premises of the City Hall.

“Professor Denise Spellberg, noted scholar of Islam, will discuss her book Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an at this luncheon. She offers a meticulously researched and incredibly detailed account not only of how Jefferson came to acquire a copy of the Qur’an in English but also of the broader historical circumstances of his political career and the role of religion in the period of the founding fathers. Tickets $65; to reserve your spot, contact Imam Salaam Muhsin at salaammuhsin@yahoo.com or 267-713-8663.”

MIM: In addition to CAIR the flyer lists other Islamist co sponsors of the lecture. They include Emerge Pac, the Universal Muslim Business Association, Masjid Masjidullah and ICPIC. The Islamic Cultural Preservation And Information Council which receives funding from the PA Council on the Arts among others. http://icpic.co/. EmergePac is a subsidiary of EmergeUSA which is headed by stealth Islamist lawyer Khurrum Wahid. http://khurrumwahid.com/emerge-usa/

“Emerge USA, despite its patriotic sounding name, has an extremely radical agenda based on terrorism and bigotry shrouded in the guise of political advocacy.The main individual behind Emerge USA is Khurrum Wahid, a South Florida attorney who has built his name on representing high profile terrorists. They include members of al-Qaeda and financiers of the Taliban. According to the Miami New Times, Wahid himself was placed on a federal terrorist watch list in 2011.” http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262685/placing-terror-pedestal-joe-kaufman

MIM: The url for Masjid Masjidullah leads to the webpage of the community of Imam W.D. Mohammed and includes this Black supremacist Mission Statement:

“Imam W. Deen Mohammed’s vision was to see a community of people working together using the wisdom Allah blessed him to share with us to organize, motivate, and empower Muslims, Christians, Jews, African Americans, Hispanics, indeed all of humanity to rise up and establish the earth as a paradise for all and defeat the schemes of the wicked devils who rob, enslave, and manipulate the people to keep the earth’s treasures for themselves.

This vision includes the evolution and elevation of the African American; the Bilalian, from a people crushed into dust and then remade into a new people on the planet (there has never been any people like the “Negro” in the history of mankind) that have been fashioned and prepared by Allah to rise up to the plane of the prophets to inspire and be a force for the struggle for freedom, justice, equality, and fulfillment for all…”

“…To accomplish his mission, Imam Mohammed had to figure out how to impregnate the new soul of the African American with the enlightened wisdom of the Qur’an and the prophets in order to complete the evolution of this people. The enlightened wisdom will produce and intellect that when married to the “Dynamic African American” soul, as Imam Mohammed referred to it, would generate the kind of human that can be a factor for bringing about the vision of the prophets, which is the vision of Imam Mohammed.

So, Imam Mohammed had to start his mission where he found himself, as the leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI). He had to transform the teachings of the Nation of Islam; change the teachings of his father, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, in order to put the new knowledge into the people…”

In 2013 Masjidullah Inc. purchased a million dollar former church property to be used as a multi purpose complex which includes a mosque,an Arabic language charter school and community center.

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MIM: The Islamist propagandistic nature of the event is epitomized Ali Asani, a professor and director of the Saudi funded stealth jihadist program of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies at Harvard University who wrote the following whopper which is quoted on page 2 of the pdf.

“In this ground breaking book Spellberg explores how America’s founding fathers intended religious tolerance as a key American ideal not only for various Protestant groups, but also for its future Muslim citizens…”

MIM: On June 23rd 2016 Curtis Jones Jr. hosted an Iftar event which took place in City Hall in the presence of Mayor Jim Kenney and other government officials.

“The 4th Annual City Hall Iftar, hosted by Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. and Ryan N. Boyer will be held on June 23, 2016 in the Mayor’s Reception Hall at City Hall. The City Hall Iftar is a grand annual affair attended by the Mayor, City Council, Imams and Islamic Leaders, Community Leaders, Business Leaders, and more.

“Al-Hibri has written and lectured extensively on Islam’s compatibility with women’s rights, human rights, and democracy. Further, she contends that when America’s founding fathers (most notably Thomas Jefferson, who owned a copy of the Qur’an, and James Madison) sought to establish freedom of religion, they likely drew their inspiration from “the Islamic model of 1500 years ago”—specifically, “a Qur’anic revelation which says there shall be no coercion in religion.” http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2566

Obama Official Addresses City Hall Iftar Dinner

Raheemah Abdulaleem, a born-and-bred Philadelphian and senior associate general counsel in the executive office of President Barack Obama, keynoted the Iftar Dinner at City Hall last Thursday evening.

Hosted by Laborers’ District Counsel Business Mgr. Ryan Boyer and City Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr., the dinner in the Mayor’s meeting room marked the end of Ramadan for members of the Philadelphia Muslim community.

Joining Abdulaleem was Mayor Jim Kenney, who indicated a milestone was set with the establishment of Eid as public-school holidays, credited, he said, to the efforts of Councilman Jones, labor leader Boyer and other leaders of the Muslim community.

He noted, “This city’s Muslim community has played an important role in the diverse culture of our city and has been an important force behind many political, religious and cultural initiatives.”

MIM: Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney with CAIR Philly President Osama Al Qasem And Executive Director Jacob Bender at the June 23 Iftar held at City Hall and hosted by Muslim City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr..

“…There had been much excitement over Congressman Ellison using Jefferson’s Koran for his ceremonial swearing-in. Jefferson’s Koran had been declared an official Koran by Ellison and President Obama. Yet this translation of the Koran had been done by a non-Muslim who not only considered Islam to be a manmade religion “that it owed its progress and establishment almost entirely to the sword,” but who also considered Muhammad to be a charlatan, and the Koran itself to be false and a forgery…”.

Read it all and see how far Islam’s tentacles are spreading and how fast…with less than 2% of the population already. Previous Creeping Sharia posts:

And the author mentioned above, Denise Spellberg forced Random House to cancel a book about Islam – ‘Jewel of Medina’, after all but acting as caliph and essentially calling on Muslims to wage jihad on the book publisher (whom she was contracted with to write the Jefferson’s Koran) for violating the sharia:

“She thinks there is a very real possibility of major danger for the building and staff and widespread violence,” Ms. Garrett wrote. “Denise [Spellberg] says it is ‘a declaration of war . . . explosive stuff . . . a national security issue.’